The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

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

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.