“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.”

“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

“The day will come when,after harnessing the winds, the tides and graviation,we shall harness for God the energies of love.And on that day,for the second time in the history of the world,man will have discovered fire.”

“The day wiill come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we should harness for God the energies of LOVE. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.”

“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned”

“It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty." [Written from Peking, October 1945, on the eve of departure, after having been stuck there since the war began.]”