God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Celebration is a confrontation giving attention to the transcendent meaning of ones actions.

Self respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

When I was young I used to admire intelligent people as I grow older I admire kind people.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a welth of information, but to face sacred moments.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

We worship God through our questions.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.