"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

"Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one."

"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety."

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

"Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf."

"It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end."

"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."

"For a living dog is better than a dead lion,"

"Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit."

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."