Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.