It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

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

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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.