"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."