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

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

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

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.