In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

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.

Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.