People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.