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

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?