It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

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

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.