The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

The secrets of success are getting started and being persistent.

I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.