If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.