Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed a couple of centuries ago is absolutely impossible. On the contrary, in order to combat modern materialistic mores, as religion must, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.