“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

To be is to stand for.

Every little deed counts.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.