Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

We are made kind by being kind.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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