He who knows about depth knows about God.

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.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

When you're hungry for success, don't let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.