To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.