Money was unimportant, unless one didn’t have any.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it buys everything else.
Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they’re all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.
Masks reveal a person’s true face…
Man’s meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
Making money isn’t hard in itself. What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.
Madmen always think it’s the others who are mad.
Life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
Life is like that first game of chess. By the time you begin to understand how the pieces move, you’ve already lost.
It’s the student who makes the teacher, not the other way round.
It’s impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason.
