Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

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

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

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