Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The only thing I did was this: in long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.