It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.