In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.

I remember thinking as a child that diamonds were stars that fell from the sky as shooting stars. You can only imagine my disappointment at learning the truth of them. I still prefer the stars.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.