I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Out of complexity, find simplicity!

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.