A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world’s greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

People don't need a reason to make a bad decision

Just this once, ’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.