Metaphysics is a science.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.