Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
A person preaches well that lives well.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.