If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.