Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.