Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.