I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.