The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

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.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.