Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. 

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Our conscience is like an alarm bell.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.