The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

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.

Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace.

You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!