Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.