Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.