When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!