The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.