In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.