I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.


If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.


There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.


To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.


To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.


Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.


At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.


Experience teaches only the teachable.


Maybe this world is another planet's hell.


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.


The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.


There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.


Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.


Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.


An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.