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

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.