In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.