"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."

"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"

"He who makes no secret of himself, enrages."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Talk is cheap. Let's go play."

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

"As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends."

"After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed."

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."