He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

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.

Happiness waits for no one.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.