"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want"

"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"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"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"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"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"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"