For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

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!

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.