Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

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

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.