Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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.