"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"

"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen."

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."

"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions."

"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds."

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement."

"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."