Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use.

A man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.

You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all things by making a fool of himself.