It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Life is short, break the rules.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.