Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.