Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Humanity is a comic role.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.