Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

People speak crap if they speak more than they've read.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

A work well begun is half-ended.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.