I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.