Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.