But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

She pointed a long lacquered nail at the pocket where his hand was fidgeting. “So is that an Obsidian in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.