Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.