The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Time the devourer of everything.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.