As we acquire more knowledge, things don't become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Do not suck your thumb - or anybody else's, for that matter. Forrest Gump Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stop light. The truly wise person is color-blind.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

There is so much coldness in the world because we are afraid to be as cordial as we really are.

Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.

By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.