Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.