When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.