Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

We must learn to see the world anew.

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

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.