All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.