There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?""I'd rather swim in battery acid.

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.