Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.