Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him

To get the sympathy of the Tribunal for himself ought always to be one of the first objects of the advocate

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.