There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.