Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

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

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.