"People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them"

"Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination"

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one"

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"

"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum"

"A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often"

"The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false"

"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession"

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

"The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries"

"That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen."

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."

"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."

"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."

"People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."

"Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury."

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."

"The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them"

"When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind"

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."

"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads."

"If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at."

"I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else."

"I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear."

"I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington."

"I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that."

"My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping."

"I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love."

"You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do."

"Life is more important than work."

"With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be."

"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist"

"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."