Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

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.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.