Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

i'm too lazy to go find happiness, but i'm sure it will swing by sometime

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.

...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.