It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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