We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

There is no worship for God without the honor of fellow man

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Dream what others do not.Imagine what others have not.Do what others will not.Achieve what others could not.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!

Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.