“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.