Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.