One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

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

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.

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.

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!