It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.