Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.