"Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped."

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it."

"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment."

"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."