The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

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

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.