Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding 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.

You need to set a system of rewards and punishment for yourself and your team

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

You say true, I say thankya.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?