I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.