We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

All human eyes have longing in them.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

A rubber plant is just about the ideal family.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.