I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.