The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.