"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out."

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man."

"By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul."

"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."

"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"