Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.