"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."