The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.