American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.