I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

The fanatic is dangerous.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.