Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.