Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.