Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

Do not judge a book by its price!

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.