One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

Be a voice not an echo.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.