In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

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.

I am fanatic book lover.

... one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

Money can't replace friendship, I'd rather have no money than losing you.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.