What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God

Don't be afraid of hard work.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.