Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Better never than late.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.