"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."

"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men."

"I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it."

"I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."