It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.