A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.