If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.