The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

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.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Language was invented to ask questions.

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.