"No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic."

"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."

"In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta."

"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."

"What we think about, expands."

"Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated."

"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."

"A single fact can spoil a good argument."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."

"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."