Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.