"I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel."

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."

"Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world."

"Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow"

"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it."