Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.