Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

The fanatic is dangerous.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.