Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.