Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
Dare to risk public criticism.
The day of individual happiness has passed
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.