The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

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.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

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