The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

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.

He who sings scares away his woes.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.