I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

A blank cheque kills creativity.

Anticipating God's blessings is a great way to begin a new week! When we look for the things that could go wrong, we just may find what we had been looking for.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

Love your Job, but never fall in love with your Company.