Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?