To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.