"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?"

"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

"In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world."

"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."

"Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do."

"If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies."