Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.