"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
"We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck"
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."