The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

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.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

Children be comforted, I am well.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.'

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.