The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.