A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us