"He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself."

"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."

"Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious."

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

"Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it."

"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."