It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.