The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.