"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."

"Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human."

"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen."

"This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one."

"If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."

"As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."