It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

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.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.