Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

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.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.