When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

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 wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

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

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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