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.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.