"No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs."

"If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves."

"Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living."

"He who flees will fight again..."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead."