Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.