The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill..

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken..

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out..

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bo….

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you….

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break..

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices a….

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust ….

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of thos….

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal w….

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexac….

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear..

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils….

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another..

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in ch….

Advertising is legalized lying..

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn..

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of..

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate ut….

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room….