Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.