A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.