What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

The enemy of love is not hate it is apathy.

Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

Life is a near-death experience.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.