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

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.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

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.

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