The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

My mind is my laboratory.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

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.