The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

There are thoughts we must not think

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.