Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.