Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I live my daydreams in music.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind