Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.