Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.