I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

The successful writer listens to himself.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.