Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Generation is the Important factor, of the Growth of Ideas.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.