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.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.