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.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.

He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.