The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.