I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

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.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.