If you fail to become the author of your life, the society wouldn't hesitate to write it for you.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

It's hard to steer a parked car.

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.