A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.