I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.