If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.