"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change."

"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him"

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life."

"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."

"A man without trust is a man without life."

"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."

"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

"Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?"