There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.