The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.