Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.