Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.