The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.