Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.