If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Nothing happens til something moves.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.