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.

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.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.