Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.