It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

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

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.