"It is a enduring truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."

"It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."