A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.