Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.