There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.