What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.