Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.