Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

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.

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart.

If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.

Dignity is an anachronism.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.