Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.