One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

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.

Success is the best revenge.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected... but again money is not something that drives me.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.