But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

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.

The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The spirit of Christmas exists in harmonious carols like those sung by angels on the day of Christ’s birth.

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.