He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there.

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

I don't know how to drive a car.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.