The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.