Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.  

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I always say that people should not rush to change religion. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

There is no retirement age for writers…