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.

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.

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.

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

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.

True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

Her only weapons were her tears.

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

I am not sleepy at all!

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.