"Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me."

"One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint."

"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man."

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

"Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden."

"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go."

"A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"You are only as wise as others perceive you to be."

"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."