Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.