1. “If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”
2. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
3. “The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
4. “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary .”
5. “Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
6. “Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”
7. “All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”
8. “Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”
9. “Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
10. “Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
11. “The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.”
12. “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
13. “It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man’s growing morality.”
14. “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”
15. “The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of serenity within and above it.”
