The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.