The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

To advise is not to compel.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Only entropy comes easy.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.