Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. 

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. 

Without surprises life could be boring.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.