The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

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.

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.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.