One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

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.

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.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Never take yourself too seriously.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.