You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Eating words has never given me indigestion. 

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.