The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.