Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.