When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.