There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.