Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

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.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

I support British designers as much as I can.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.