Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.