If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.