Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.