"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."

"No good deed goes unpunished."

"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."

"In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

"The pleasure of love is in loving."

"It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured."

"I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that exchanges the traffic back and forth, big or small, we all need each other."