Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.