Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.