At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.