You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.