Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.