• I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.
  • A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
  • The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
  • Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.
  • A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
  • Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.
  • If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
  • Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
  • Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
  • The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
  • Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore
  • Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.




  • The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.
  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
  • I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
  • Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.