One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].