Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

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

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.