Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.