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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.