The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.