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

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.'

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.

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

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

Follow the truth and you will never get lost.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.