The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.