Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.