Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.