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.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

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