Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.