There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

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.

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

We have to be honest with ourselves.

I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

We see death constantly on film.

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.