"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"God is dead."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?"

"One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else."

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other."