It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

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

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.