The value of a man resides in what he gives

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.