There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

A rib... loaves and fish... some spit... God can do a lot with a little.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.