You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

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.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

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.

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.