The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!