"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too."

"Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate."

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."

"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."

"Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light."