“It is almost impossible to think without talking.”

“5243. To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”

“Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray.”

“It's impossible to become an inventor or a genius without self-talk. You just need to control it according to your needs. Explore your imagination.”

“And yet, [Hitler] is not without a certain charm. But it is the soft, almost feminine charm of the Austrian! When he talks it is with a broad Austrian dialect.”

“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.”

“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die.

True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.”

“With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. … Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.”

“Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ”

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”