"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."

"If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on."

"For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable."

"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection."

"Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are."

"At exactly which point do you start to realise, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?"

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

"Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion."

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

"Life is not all golf."

"Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral."

"Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures."