Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.