In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known — that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

All currency is neurotic currency.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.