War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

You can't use an old map to explore a new world.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.