Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

I don't know if vocally I am so great.

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.