"We are faced with the paradox that the more we try to avoid suffering, the more we suffer, because our fear of suffering is greater than the suffering itself."

"A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples."

"The most important thing for a child is to feel loved."

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that there are no Greek gods."