A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.