No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Freedom is from within.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

That which costs little is less valued.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.