The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished.
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.