All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

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

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

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.

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

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.