"Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management."

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

"The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster."

"Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes."

"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it"

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."

"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."

"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!"