One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Imagination is more important than intelligence.
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.