It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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 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'.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

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.