It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

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

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

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.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.