Every institution is inherently demonic.

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.

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

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.

Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

An index is a great leveller.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.