Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

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.

There is no reason for you to ever stop walking with faith, because you are amazingly built to win regardless of how tough or rough your challenges are.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.