Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.