Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.