If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.