It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

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.

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.