What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

God has no other hands than ours.

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.