“Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.”

“We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”

“If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

“Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.”

“We’ve moved beyond our ability to understand our technology.”

“It is not our business to worry or care about something that is beyond our understanding.”

“Alas!
We give our destiny from our own hands,
And trust to those most frail of all frail things,
The chances of humanity.”

“If then all things that grow, nay, our own bodies, are thus bound up with the whole, is not this still truer of our souls? And if our souls are bound up and in contact with God, as being very parts and fragments plucked from Himself, shall He not feel every movement of theirs as though it were His own, and belonging to His own nature?”

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

“We are not authors of our lives; we are not even part-authors of the events that mark us most deeply. Nearly everything that is most important in our lives is unchosen. The time and place we are born, our parents, the first language we speak - these are chance, not choice. It is the casual drift of things that shapes our most fateful relationships. The life of each of us is a chapter of accidents.”