The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.