"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected."

"Are you willing to sacrifice all that you are to keep all that you have?"

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

"If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so."

"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."

"A man said to the Universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'"

"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."

"The mind can also be an erogenous zone."

"Education is life itself."

"We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players."

"The major sin is the sin of being born."

"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."