In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

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.

Believe in yourself, for the universe believes in you.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.