The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.

One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.