Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.