Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

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

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.