"An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory."

"When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books."

"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."

"The world is proof that God is a committee."

"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."

"My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair."

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one"

"God must hate common people, because he made them so common."

"I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot."

"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius."

"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."

"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."