The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

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.

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.