The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

We must get over wanting to be needed.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.