But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

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

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?

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.