I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to