"The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are."

“The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.”

“The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the sharpest preventative measures against the continued attack-politics Germany undertook. Possibilities existed for this, but no measures were seized upon.”

Source : Diary entry, May 29, 1940.

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

“I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.”

“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.”

“From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.”

“There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.”

Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

“The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....”