Give back to the world at least what you've received.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.