"We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves."

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

"The difference between man and animals is that we don't use our tongue to clean our genitals."

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

"I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people."

"Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey."

"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first."

"When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs."

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

"Where we go and what we do advertises what we are."

"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated"

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."