Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).