The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.