Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.