A jug fills drop by drop.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Each soul is potentially divine.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Thought is free.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.