The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

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.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Never judge anyone as they have their own situation and different dimensions of looking at things and situations which you may not understand . . so Observe.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Stay calm and aggressive.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

Carlito likes to swap spit with men who don't want to be cool.

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...