Fear is the absence of faith.

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.

Do your best to find pleasure in working out on a regular basis. You deserve to look good, and you solely owe it to yourself.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.