To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

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

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.