"I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel."

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos."

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite."

"RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead."

"God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him."

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

"Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers."

"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."