“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The ego is not master in its own house.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West, But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

The world is still very bigoted.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

One lady told me that before she saw ‘Sounder’ she didn’t believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.