For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.