Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops as more of a country's citizens receive a secondary education.