The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

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.

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

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

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