A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.