You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.