To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.