“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.”

“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”

“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.”

“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”

“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”

“If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving.Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.Take what is given:Give what cannot be taken.”

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”