The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.

There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights

We have to have more than textbooks, we need text-people.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.