“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. ...” — Reinhold Niebuhr Quote

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

There are times when we need to think beyond business and look at preserving culture and languages.