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

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one must never, in one's life, accept . . . injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.