Too many intellectuals look down on religion and think it will go away. God is not going to go away. There are far more religious people in the world today than when I was born.

I had a happy, idyllic, old-fashioned childhood. Go to the town where I spent that childhood, you will not find my happy hours there. Yet they remain definite …

[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

Hitler made it impossible to keep believing in pacifism, which was one of the many terrible things he did to the world.