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.'

The first duty of love is to listen.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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.

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

Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.

Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

I struggle with racism every day

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.