"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

"Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it."

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

"It is a steadfast truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions."

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

"It is a humble truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."