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.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.