The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

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

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.