No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.