One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Life means progress, and progress means suffering. No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
All life is an experiment.
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. If you are young and you drink a great deal, it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat-in other words, turn you into an adult. Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as occasionally receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.