A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

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.

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

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

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

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.