The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make