People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.

Never let the clouds of your negative past blindfold you from the beauty of the present.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.