Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have -- and it is for this reason that arts go on for generation to generation in spite of the fact that Phidias has already carved and Homer has already sung. The creation, we are informed, was accomplished in seven days with Sunday off, but the recreation will never be accomplished because it is always accomplished anew for each generation of living men.