Love that cares, listens.

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.

The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously!

There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.