I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

We know too much and feel too little.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given