"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question"
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance"
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something"
"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know"
"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves"
"Facts are counterrevolutionary"
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are"
"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything"
"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully"
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves"
"Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith"
"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor"
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing"
"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action"
"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect"
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do"
"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners"
"Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake"
"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other"
"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his"
"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size"
"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house"
"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive"
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist"
"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself"
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings"
"The greatest weariness comes from work not done"
"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind"
"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence"
"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities"
"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor"
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak"
"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living"
"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it"
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists"
