It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
