"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net"

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"