“To realize oneself without adapting is the concept of creativity.”

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

“To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.”

“Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late.”

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”

“I believe that true identity is found… in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.”

“Self-realization – is an individual's full implementation of potential realization: spiritual-moral, intellectual, creative, and emotional, during the process of which it reveals and realizes its human dignity and professional abilities.”

“One can love a real woman after having loved her imagined counterpart. Similarly, one can adapt oneself to a society which, previously, one held in contempt.”

“From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.”

“We are far from understanding how to achieve adaptively efficient economies because allocative efficiency and adaptive efficiency may not always be consistent. Allocatively efficient rules would make today's firms and decisions secure - but frequently at the expense of the creative destruction process that Schumpeter had in mind.”