To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Life is stronger than death.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.