A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Most animal experimentation is useless.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.