The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

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

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.