“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.”

“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

“It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.”

“A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.”

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”

“The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.”