Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Forgiveness" Steroids for the Soul.

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

At the heart of art is learning to see