Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.