Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.