Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Happiness too is inevitable.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

Integrity has no need of rules.