Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.