Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.