Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.