A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

God is a scientist, not a magician.