Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

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