“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.”

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.