Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.