Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

All hell broke loose.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.