Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

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.