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

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

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

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.