God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

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

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

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

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.