Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.