Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

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.

The things that truly define me can’t be lost.

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.