It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

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