The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.