No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.