It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

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

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.