The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.