My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.