“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

“The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”