Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

Do a bit research before you plan.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

We are never content with our lot.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.