A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

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.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.