The step between genius and insanity is very short.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.