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.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

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

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

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

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.