Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

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.

Not every man is an abuser and not every woman is a victim. So before assuming anything we must try to know the truth. Because sorry isn't enough sometimes to warmth the loss.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.

It is my belief that books are living things.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.