You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.