All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.