Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

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.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.