Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.
My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.
Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.
At this very moment,. . . the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.
Greatest misconception about We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing.
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.