Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.