Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!