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

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.