This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.