We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.