“It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.”
“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.”
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
“It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
“It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.”
“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”