The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.