Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.