The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.