I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

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

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex