Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.