Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.