Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

The state was made for man, not man for state.