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

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.