"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.