I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.  

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Abundance may be the root cause of wastage.

Compassion can make friends out of enemies.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished