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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.