The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

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