Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful