"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general."

"Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs."

"Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease."

"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."

"Beauty fades; dumb is forever."

"I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare."

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

"No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."

"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."

"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."

"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!"

"I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me."