I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.