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

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.

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"?

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

I've always liked the fact that I could make people laugh at crazy stuff that has happened to me. If it makes you feel better at me falling down the stairs...then I'm going to do it.

...a great good is worth being long desired.