One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.