The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.