Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.