No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.