“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”

“If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?”

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”

“Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.”

“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”