Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.