I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

All human eyes have longing in them.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

The biggest obstacle in life, is not failure. The biggest obstacle, is the fear of failure.

Given all that lies beyond mycontrol, I obsess about the few things I can control

When he said someone had "died", Erdős meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.