“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Without a Stable Physical Structure, the Overflow of Genius Will Be Damaging.

The leader of the genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Genius lives only one story above the madness.

Progress and civilization are the results of the efforts of genius, not the gossip of the majority.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.