Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

They say that a man is as faithful as his options, and in this moment I know it to be true. So I switched the phone off. It's too much. Even Jesus only had three temptations.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.