If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.

You are too blessed to ever dare to settle for an empty life.

The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.