You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A jug fills drop by drop.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Effective action is always unjust.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Once you label me you negate me.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.