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.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.