Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Knowledge is power.