We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.