“It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.”

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

There should be a connection between a man’s hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, ‘Look at it, listen to it.’ Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.