Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!