The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.

Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales que ahora se hallan corrompidos, toda vez que no pueden ser puestos en práctica. Y cuando la moral se corrompe, entonces es peor que carecer de ella.

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.