... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

To create oneself as a Leader the foundation of Integrity must be laid, built with character and aspirations of greatness

Courage is a certainty.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.

aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.

You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.