The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
Harry Emerson FosdickIt is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
Harry Emerson FosdickEvery year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
Harry Emerson FosdickEvery human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Harry Emerson FosdickThe most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick