The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.