"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."

"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."

"The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge."

"I came, I saw, I conquered. ( Veni, vidi, vici. )"

"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot."

"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."