I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.