Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go<br> Back to their quiet graves below.