This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

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.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

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 remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Marriage is not a reform school.

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.