You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.