Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.