Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.