Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.