We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.