Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

Act like a champion, and then become one.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.

Ask in faith.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

We are surrounded by story.

Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.