Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

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.

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

I was always pretty good at designing things.