To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.