There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

It is not length of life but depth of life.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Once I feel I'm right I have enjoyed provoking.

Follow your cultural and religious customs in your own home, but do not attempt to impose them on society. Rather than this, love each person as your own brother or sister, not seeing him or her as belonging to another creed, religion or country.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated something is wrong.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So when they do you have to grab them.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

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