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1. "It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

2. "The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."

3. "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

4. "Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."

5. "People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works."

6. "Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund."

7. "No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

8. "Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments."

9. "How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

10. "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

11. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

12. "Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop."

13. "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

14. "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

15. "A good compliment is a truth, but presented in a favorable light."

16. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

17. "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

18. "Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return."

19. "At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

20. "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

21. "Temptation is the woman's weapon and the man's excuse."

22. "Patience is something that you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you."

23. "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

24. "Habit is stronger than reason."

25. "A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."

26. "Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

27. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

28. "Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

29. "The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."

30. "Food first, then morality."

31. "Morality is contraband in war."

32. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

33. "Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

34. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

35. "Style is the image of character."

36. "We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here."

37. "Manners are noises you don't make while eating soup."

38. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

39. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

40. "Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow."

41. "Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong."

42. "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

43. "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

44. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

45. "He preaches well that lives well."

46. "Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

47. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

48. "Association with women is the basis of good manners."

49. "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

50. "What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."