With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.