“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”