Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.