Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.