Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

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

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.