"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

"Genius is childhood recaptured."

"Life is good, if you like that sort of thing."

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

"Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance."

"The search for truth begins with the doubt of all 'truths' in which one has previously believed."

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill."

"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."