"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell."

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

"Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake."

"Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy."

"Bad spellers of the world, untie!"

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

"Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing."

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."