I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.