Quotes

“To believe that people are basically good after Auschwitz, the Gulag and other horrors of our century, is a statement of irrational faith, as irrational as any fanatical religious belief. …

“Coach, if you need one yard, I’ll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I’ll get you three yards.”

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.”

“God is always almost late.”

“Hebrew has no vocabulary for slavery, only of servanthood.”

“The never-angered person is morally deficient.”

“My hope is that when I die, all of Hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”

“As a matter of fact, it may be categorically stated that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of …