Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement t...
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.