I get the most joy in life out of music.

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.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.