The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Curiosity is its own reason.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

You accept the historical Jesus?