Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act

Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination

The root of all desire is the realization of NOT HAVING IT!

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

Rituals are important.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.