My literary success meant nothing to me

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.