People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.