"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"Never underestimate the power of wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."