"Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals."

"It's not in how many times you fall down, what matters is how many times you get back up."

"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do."

"The world is proof that God is a committee."

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"

"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications."

"He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be."

"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."

"Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it."