Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Never do anything against conscience even the state demands it

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.