The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.