What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.