We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

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.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The only failure is not to try.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.