It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.