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

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

We are here for the sake of others

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.