The rich are always afraid.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.