We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.