A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.