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.

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

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.

You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.

I am not in a relationship

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.