Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.