The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.