Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.