Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.