A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.