The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

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"?

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Association brings impartation

Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth.

It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

noise is a pollution.

I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.