The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

I find myself only by losing myself.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259