If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.