In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.