A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.