"Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts."

"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."

"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it."

"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."

"There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction."

"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts."

"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."

"When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do."

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all."

"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."