“What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

In my personal life I’m not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man’s world, I’m really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I’m willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am.” It’s true.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?