"Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them"

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness"

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"