To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.