God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.