When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.