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

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

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