Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.