If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.