The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

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 was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

If you have a smash hit record or something that's quirky or funny or cool, people are going to go after it.

Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

...because where we are is always the most important place.