Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
No one can resist an idea whose time has come.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Twice, adv. Once too often.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire.
Never cut what you can untie.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Nothing is more certain than the certainty of being uncertain.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones.
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
Dead fish go with the flow... but I'm not dead yet.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
