In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.