Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.