We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

Without argument the species would parish.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.