"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."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."

"There is no sin greater than ignorance."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."

"If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be."

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."