First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.