America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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.