Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

The Highest Heavens is the throne of the Holy One.

The mind reels.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.

Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?