It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

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.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.