Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.