The fanatic is dangerous.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.