There can be no faith without risk.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.