“The truth is that God is to be found in all things--even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.”

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”

“Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!”

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.”

“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”