Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

I see black light (his last words)

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.

Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.