It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.