"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
"A confession has to be part of your new life."
"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."