Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

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.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.