One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

Always take a job that is too big for you.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .