However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
Change is the essence of life.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.
If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.