What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.