The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

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.

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

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.