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.

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.

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.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Zach kissed her forehead. "I'm not going to let anything like that happen to you again. You're going to live out your days as the cosseted and cherished wife of a chief deputy U.S. Marshal.

I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.