Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

To fear love is to fear life.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.