"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."

"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."

"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

"I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'"