That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

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

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.