It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

We are made kind by being kind.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.