If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

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.

None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.