There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.