It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.