In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.