There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Love dies only when growth stops.