You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

Universe is an empty mirror. World is just the reflection of your thoughts.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

Jesus was a management expert too.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.