The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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