The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.