“To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.”

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

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.

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

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.

If you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and body once connected together, can do anything.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

I’m crazy, I’m nuts. Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.