When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that’s too bad.

If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.