Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.