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.

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

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.