... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.