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

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'.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

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

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.