The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

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.

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

I've not actually been on too many dates.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.