When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

You accept the historical Jesus?