The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text