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.

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.