To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

This love is silent.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.