It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Not because we think that it's still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.