We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

God waits for us to create him.

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

Nothing can take the place of true love.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.