Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

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

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.