I think; therefore I am.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Awareness without action is worthless.
I think its the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Now I’m a warrior.
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.
