I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

The state was made for man, not man for state.