Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.