The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.