Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.