"Love is the very essence of life."

"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."

"Hurting people is my business."

"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius."

"Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time."

"With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

"The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards."