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

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!