Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.