“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

“Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors.”

“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”

“Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful”

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”