After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

It doesn't matter, the important thing is to fall asleep caressing the charm of an image. Because the last thing you think of before falling asleep must always be the most beautiful.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.