We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.