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

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.