Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.