Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

No great thing happens suddenly.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.