To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.