Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

Some feel lucky, if they haven't got to be happy, as they don’t like their frame of mind to be unravelled and prefer to be left well enough alone. ( "C’est quand le bonheur ?" )

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.