"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead."

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"Loneliness is a strange gift."

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."