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

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

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

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.