You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.