Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Appearances often are deceiving.