It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.