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

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

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

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

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

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

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