A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.