One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.