"It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"