"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"Justice delayed is democracy denied."

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."

"They should rule who are able to rule best."

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."