I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.