I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.