It's not that I'm so smart.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.